The current political impasse in Papua New Guinea has no effect on the Solomon Islands contingent to the 5th Melanesian Arts and Cultural Festival in the country.
Royal Solomon Islands Police Force, RSIPF, crime records for the past two weeks have been fairly low despite minor cases which are currently under police control.
Nominations for the 2014 Solomon Islands Business Excellence Awards is now open for businesses and civil society organizations wanting to bid for various awards of business excellence.
The Minister of Finance and treasury, Hon. Rick Hou says the reform of the National Provident Fund, NPF, Act is absolutely necessary. Announcing the NPF’s 15 percent crediting rate for the 2014 financial year, Hon. Hou says the government has included this reform as part of its priorities.
The 15 percent crediting rate applied to National Provident Fund, NPF, members contribution balances for the 2014 financial year means a crediting amount of 232 million paid to members savings after June 30th. SINPF Board Chairman Mr.
Day one of the Melanesian Festival of Arts and Culture in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea on Monday has highlighted Melanesian people’s close connection to their land and environment.
A gospel segment program will kick-start the weeklong trade Expo this Sunday at Bodo field, Chinatown. According to a tentative program, this Sunday will see businesses doing final touches to their respective stalls and announcements on the weeklong program will be highlighted.
Solomon Islands is on its path to replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy. A government statement today reports Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo as saying this at the 21 Oceania Leaders Summit in New Caledonia.
An Australian company is hopeful to use thermal power from the Savo volcano to provide electricity to the country’s capital, Honiara. Today PACNEWS reports the Brisbane based Geodynamics Limited and its joint venture partner Kentor Energy Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Kentor Gold told the Australian…
Recently established St Francis Early Childhood Education kindergarten school at Fiukwai village in Malaita Province is using coconuts as school fees for its students.
The Solomon Islands contingent to the fifth Melanesian Festival of Arts has left the country for Papua New Guinea. Media Officer for the Solomon Islands Contingent, George Hermmings, told SIBC News this week the contingent left on a chartered flight yesterday.
Patients diagnosed with non-communicable disease are occupying almost 1-hundred percent of beds in the medical and surgical wards at the National Referral Hospital in Honiara.
Women’s representatives from none government organizations and churches have successfully ended a forum to advance gender equality in communities in the country.
The Electoral Commission has announced over 2-hundred and 87-thousand registered voters are on the newly compiled Provisional Voters List – of which, almost 6-thousand were multiple registrations.
The National Disaster Management Office has given people currently residing in the two last remaining evacuation centres at Rove and FOPA until tomorrow to vacate the areas. NDMO Director, Loti Yates says the immediate deadline is due to financial challenges.
Yearly rice imports are putting Solomon Islands at a serious food security risk level, especially when external shocks such as the increase in world food prices normally trickles down to rice importing countries.
A well known gospel singer is on trial at the Magistrate’s Court, accused of defiling his former girlfriend. He allegedly had sex with the young girl on four separate occasions, between May 2010 and April 2011.
A young man will serve 15 months in prison for causing grievous bodily harm to his brother-in-law and intimidating his own mother. In October 2013, the accused stabbed his brother-in-law with a bush knife.
Provincial Assembly Member for Malango Ward, Walton Naezon has accused the Tina Hydro Project Office of not following proper legal processes to identify landowners. Mr Naezon made the comments following a media statement from the Project Office, published in local newspapers today.
The Solomon Islands has the world’s highest Google search volume index for “World Cup”, says the America’s Time online magazine. In an article “5 weird facts about the World Cup”, the Time says the Solomon Islands is “Googling ‘World Cup’ like crazy”.
